Comments on: Sun’s Phipps: open source Java is “an ongoing process” http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/suns-phipps-open-source-java-is-ongoing-process/ Technology, Computers, Web 2.0, Google, Microsoft, and just about anything else Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:45:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Peter http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/suns-phipps-open-source-java-is-ongoing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-1115 Peter Wed, 16 Aug 2006 07:58:46 +0000 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/suns-phipps-open-source-java-is-ongoing-process/#comment-1115 You're probably right. Why would Microsoft fight for Java as an interoperable platform anyway? With Vista they'll want to be pushing the new .NET - .NET 3.0 or WinFX or whatever it's called now, so I guess you're right they won't want built-in competition in the form of Java. And the implementation of Java that was in XP originally was Microsoft's JVM, not a Sun offering. It was generally considered to be rubbish and insecure compared to Sun's JVM, and it essentially is dead technology now. You’re probably right. Why would Microsoft fight for Java as an interoperable platform anyway? With Vista they’ll want to be pushing the new .NET – .NET 3.0 or WinFX or whatever it’s called now, so I guess you’re right they won’t want built-in competition in the form of Java.

And the implementation of Java that was in XP originally was Microsoft’s JVM, not a Sun offering. It was generally considered to be rubbish and insecure compared to Sun’s JVM, and it essentially is dead technology now.

]]> By: Chris Hubick http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/suns-phipps-open-source-java-is-ongoing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-1098 Chris Hubick Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:34:03 +0000 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/suns-phipps-open-source-java-is-ongoing-process/#comment-1098 If Java becomes available on WIndows, Mac, and Linux - that makes it pretty much a universal platform. Universal means you don't need Windows. The realization that Java was more than spinny banner ads for the web browser, and a real platform threat, is exactly what caused them to attempt to co-op Java the last time, leading to the legal embroilment - and exactly why Microsoft would fight to the death *not* to include Open Source Java with Windows today. Never gonna happen. If Java becomes available on WIndows, Mac, and Linux – that makes it pretty much a universal platform. Universal means you don’t need Windows. The realization that Java was more than spinny banner ads for the web browser, and a real platform threat, is exactly what caused them to attempt to co-op Java the last time, leading to the legal embroilment – and exactly why Microsoft would fight to the death *not* to include Open Source Java with Windows today. Never gonna happen.

]]> By: Peter’s Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Open source Java is an “ongoing process” http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/suns-phipps-open-source-java-is-ongoing-process/comment-page-1/#comment-1073 Peter’s Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » Open source Java is an “ongoing process” Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:13:31 +0000 http://gizbuzz.co.uk/2006/suns-phipps-open-source-java-is-ongoing-process/#comment-1073 [...] According to Simon Phipps, anyway. Read my full post here. [...] [...] According to Simon Phipps, anyway. Read my full post here. [...]

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